Tonya M.
Evans-Walls practices in the areas of public finance, intellectual
property, literary law, and estate planning. The firm is listed in
the Red
Book.
She is also Visiting Professor of Law at the Harrisburg Campus of
Widener University School of Law and former Adjunct Professor at York
College of Pennsylvania, where she taught Music Licensing,
Publishing, and Copyright.
During law
school, Ms. Evans-Walls interned with the Honorable Arthur L.
Burnett, Sr. in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, with
U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah and with the Honorable Theodore A.
McKee in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Ms.
Evans-Walls is a poet and the author of Literary
Law Guide for Authors: Copyright, Trademark, and Contracts in Plain Language,
Seasons
of Her
and SHINE!
Her
short story, Not
Tonight
appears in an anthology titled Proverbs
for the People,
published by Kensington. Prior to law school, Mrs. Evans-Walls
competed on the women's professional tennis circuit and played most
notably in the US Open, Virginia Slims of Philadelphia, and Lipton in
1993. She now lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Orville R.
Walls, III, and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Education
B.S. 1991,
Dean's List, Northwestern University, Communication Studies major
J.D. 1998, cum
laude, Howard University School of Law; editor-in-chief, Howard
Law Journal
Experience
May
2003-Present, TME Law
January
2002-May 2003, Partnership with Susan Borden Evans, Esquire
2000-2002,
Associate, Pepper Hamilton LLP
1999-2000,
Associate, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
Clerkships
1998-99 Law
Clerk to Hon. Theodore A. McKee, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
(Philadelphia, PA)
Bar Admissions
Pennsylvania (1998),
District of Columbia (1999),
New Jersey (1998),
Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1999),
the Third Circuit (1999)
and New York (2006)
Publications
